Opn. No.

HON. DAVID G. RETCHLESS County Attorney, Ontario County

We acknowledge receipt of your letter inquiring whether your county commissioner of social services, county superintendent of highways and county attorney are required to take oaths of office when reappointed to new terms following the expiration of their former terms and you draw to our attention Public Officers Law §10, which requires public officers to take and file an oath of office; Public Officers Law § 30, subdivision 1, paragraph h, which provides that if an oath of office is not filed by a public officer in a timely manner, a…